• Les grévistes de la faim d’Oulan-Bator protestant contre un projet minier évacués par la police qui se faisait du souci pour leur santé.

    Noyon Mountain activists cleared from protest site | The UB Post
    http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/?p=13536

    Social media has been flooded with photos and videos of protesters being surrounded by police sent in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning to remove hunger striking protesters, reportedly to deliver them to a hospital for medical treatment, as ordered by the Chinggeltei District Mayor.
    Six people were on hunger strike outside the Statue for Victims of Political Persecution, while 70 more protesters were camped next to the statue in gers to support the hunger strikers expressing their opposition to gold mining operations being authorized at Noyon Mountain.
    The protesters had been on hunger strike for 12 consecutive days before their removal from the protest site on Tuesday. The police cited concerns about their declining health as the reason for yesterday’s actions.
    Medical evaluations of the protesters were said to prove that they needed urgent medical treatment, and an order was issued by the Chinggeltei District Mayor’s Office to have them hospitalized, as reported at a press conference given by the police on Tuesday morning.
    Protesters and other witnesses described the police action as “forced capture”, contrary to statements by the police.
    A large number of police wearing riot gear surrounded the hunger strikers and allegedly used “kill switch” technology to disrupt mobile network and internet connections, according to supporters of the Save Noyon Mountain movement.
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    The police told the media that the protesters on hunger strike saw the ordinance from the Deputy Mayor’s Office and peacefully agreed to go to a hospital. The police claim that the protesters dismantled their gers on the spot, and of their own free will, were transported to a hospital.
    However, protesters and supporters who witnessed the incident are reporting events differently. The witnesses say that the police captured the protestors and hunger strikers and dismantled the gers with force on the order of their superiors.

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    (sur leur page FB https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007572735640 )

    • Dans la région de Noyon Uul se situent des tombes Xiongnou mentionnées au patrimoine culturel de l’humanité de l’Unesco.

      Funeral Sites of the Xiongnu Elite - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
      http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5951

      Funeral sites of the Xiongnu Elite
      A total of 11 funeral complexes of the Xiongnu Elite have been found in Mongolia and Russia. Most (7) of these complex sites are located in the territory of Mongolia.
      A certain style of tomb of the Xiongnu Elite was widespread. This shows a similarity in funeral rites between all the sites. Most funeral complexes of the Xiongnu Elite consist of big elite tombs and small circular tombs and sacrificial features that either have stone or earth surface cover. The external structure of a Xiongnu Elite tomb has two parts: a rectangular stone terrace directly above the burial pit, and an adjoining entrance passage to the south.
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      1. Funeral site of the Xiongnu Elite at Noyon Uul
      This site occupies a total of 129.6 he area located at Kharaagiin Noyon Uul mountain within territories of Bornuur, Mandal and Batsumber soums of Tuv province. There are 230 elite burials in places called Sujigt (Sujigt-1. 73.8 he; Sujigt-2. 5.3 he), Zuramt (7,1 he) and Khujirt (43,4 he). This heritage site was discovered in 1912. The tombs are similar to elite tombs of other places but the tomb #20 is the deepest (18.35 m) so far known in Eurasia.

      Plus sur ces tombes Xiongnou (dont l’une d’un chef au début de l’ère chrétienne). Inondées et gelées, elles ont conservé des textiles dont certains provenant des Parthes. Mais pas les corps qui ont été dispersés lors de la chute de l’empire Xiongnou.

      Noin-Ula kurgans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noin-Ula_kurgans

      Kurgan No 6 was the tomb of Uchjulü-Jodi-Chanuy (Uchilonoti, Ulunoti, 烏珠留若提 Wu-Zhou-Liu-Ju-Di, reigned 8 BCE–13 CE), who is mentioned in the Chinese annals. He is famous for freeing his people from the Chinese protectorate that lasted 56 years, from 47 BCE to 9 CE. Uchjulü-Jodi-Chanuy was buried in 13 CE, a date established from the inscription on a cup given to him by the Chinese Emperor during a reception in the Shanlin park near Chang’an in 1 BCE.